Shingle-press.



A. MGGANN.

SHINGLE PRESS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 1, 1909. RENEWED PEB.8,1911.

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APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 1, 1909. RENEWED EEB. a. 1911.

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SHINGLE-PBESS.

Application fi1ed June 1, 1909, Serial No. 499,585.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW MOCANN, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of Fall City, in the county of a King and Stateof lVashington, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements inShingle-Presses, of which the following is a specification.

The primary aim of my invention is to provide an improved press forcompressing bundles to tighten the pack.

The invention resides in an efficient organization embracing novelfeatures of con struction, combination and arrangement of parts ashereinafter set forth and succinctly defined in the appended claims.

With reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein like referencenumerals designate corresponding parts throughout: Figure 1 is a plan ofa bundle press embodying my invention in such form as now preferred byme. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section thereof. Fig. 8 is avertical section on line 33 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 41 is a detail view ofthe reversing drive for, operating the pressing mechanism.

The invention is particularly directed to the operation of compressingbundles of shingles endwise to tighten the packs, and includes asuitable conveyer in the form of endless belts 1 carrying flights 2 andpassing about sprocket wheels secured to drive and idle shafts 3 and 1respectively, which are mounted on suitable frame work at opposite endsof a supporting platform 5 extending beneath the upper runs of thebelts.

Adjacent the head end of the conveyer are opposite press heads 6 havingscrew threaded engagement with upper and lower transversely disposedscrews 7 connected by spur gearing 8 and rotatably supported on frameparts 5 combined with platform 5. The screw threaded engagements betweenthe screws and heads is suitable to effect movement of the latter inopposite directions when the screws are rotated, as clearly shown inFig. 3. In common with platform 5 I have shown guides 1 arranged toadjust the bundles on the conveyer as they are brought between the pressheads.

The heads 6 are provided with adjustable spring pressed face plates 9slidably receiving the screws 7 and having screw-threaded stems 9.slidable in suitable bosses 6' of respective heads and carrying on theirouter Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J uly 16, 1912.

Renewed February 8, 1911. Serial No. 607,414.

end portions suitable adjusting nuts. By this arrangement the faceplates may be adjusted as desired, while the springs 10 compensate fordifferent degrees of looseness in the packing of shingles and therebyreduce the liability of bursting the bands of relatively tight bundles.

In conjunction with the conveyer and screw 7 I provide means foreffecting intermittent movement of the former, and suitable rotations ofthe latter, to first apply the heads and then retract them relatively tothe bundle, during pause of the conveyer. In this connection I h aveshown a main driving mechanism including a shaft 11 mounted on frameparts 5" and connected by gearing 12 wit-h a shaft 13 secured forrotation with a drive pulley 14E. Shaft 11 has intermittent drivingconnection with a shaft 15, connected by link belt gearing, as 16 withconveyer shaft 3, through the medium of mutilated gearing comprising asegmental gear 17 and pinion 18 secured to shafts 11 and 15respectively. The relative ratio for driving engagement between thesegears is one full revolution of shaft 15 to one half revolution of shaft11, consequently shafts 15 and 3 lie idle during the remaining part ofeach revolution of shaft 11.

The connection for driving the press screws includes a segmentalinternal gear 19 loosely mounted on lower screw 7, to revolve about apinion 20 secured to said screw. This pinion meshes with opposite trainsof gears rotatably mounted on a bracket 22 and including key pinions 21equal in diameter to pinion 20. Gear 19 is connected with shaft 11 bylink belt gearing 23 to be driven one to one and set relatively to gear17 to effect the pressing operation during inactive movement of saidgear.

In operation the bundles placed endwise across the conveyer and engagedwith the flights, are presented successively between the heads 6 whichare advanced for pressing action and retracted by the reverse gearingduring each pause of the conveyer.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States, is:

1. A press comprising rotatably mounted rods connected to operate inunison, work conveying means extending therebetween, and heads atopposite sides of said means for engagement with the ends of the workconveyed and connected wit-h the rods for movement thereby in relativelyopposite directions.

2. A press comprising horizontal r0tatably mounted rods connected tooperate in unison, work conveying means extending between said rods, andheads at opposite sides of said means mounted on said rods and havingscrew threaded connections therewith for movement in relatively oppositedirections.

8. A press comprising opposite heads, upper and lower horizontal headactuating means extending between said heads and supporting the same,and a conveying means passing brtWGQIl the heads and between saidactuating means.

4. In a press, the combination of a rotatably mounted rod, a head havingscrew threaded connection therewith, and a face plate yieldinglysupported from said head and movable on said rod.

5. In a press, the combination of a head, a rod extending through thehead and having screw threaded engagement therewith, a face plateyieldingly supported from said head and movable on the rod, and meansfor adjusting said plate relatively to the head.

6. A press comprising a carrier, means I for imparting a step by 'stepmovement thereto, means in the path of said carrier for pressing thework conveyed, means in the path of said carrier for adjusting the workconveyed thereon relatively to said second named means, and meansoperated by said first means for operating said second means forpressing after each movement of said carrier.

7. A press comprising a carrier, means for imparting a step by stepmovement thereto, spaced'means arranged'at the sides of said carrier forpressing the work conveyed, means in the path of said carrier foradjusting the work thereon relatively to said second means, and meansoperated by said first means for operating said second means forpressing after each movement of said carrier.

8. A press comprising a carrier, means for imparting a step by stepmovement thereto, two rotatably mounted rods one of which is arrangedabove said carrier and the other below the same, means connecting saidrod for operation in unison, heads at the opposite sides of said carriermounted on said rods and having screw threaded connection therewith formovement in relatively opposite directions, and means operated by saidfirst means for imparting rotary movement to said rods for advancingsaid heads toward one another for pressing after each movement of saidcarrier.

9. A press comprising a carrier arranged to support shingles in bundles,means for imparting a step by step movement to said carrier, movablepressing heads supported at the sides of said carrier for engagementwith the ends of the shingles, and means operated by said first meansfor operating said pressing heads toward one another after each movementof said carrier.

Signed at Seattle, lVashington, this 19th day of May 1909.

ANDREWV MCCANN.

/Vitnesses J. E. PATRICK, F RANK E. ADAMs.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

